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This month marks 50 years since the Watergate scandal rocked the Nixon presidency, but many of the scandal’s lessons still seem fresh. We sat down with former Nixon White House aide John Dean ...
Watergate residents want to launch a museum devoted to the D.C. waterfront complex and the Nixon scandal that erupted there.
Watergate was not just a scandal. It was a test of America's democratic institutions, and we chose the rule of law over the ...
On 1974, Watergate figure John Ehrlichman was sentenced to prison for his role in the break-in at the office of Daniel ...
Fifty years since it ignited Washington, the Watergate affair remains a cautionary tale on the threat of untrammelled presidential power. Richard Nixon is pictured in August 1974 saying his ...
But a steady stream of revelations from the Watergate scandal, arising from a break-in and wiretapping at Democratic National Committee headquarters staged by employees of Nixon’s re-election ...
On Aug. 8, 1974, facing expected impeachment over the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon became the first U.S. president to ...
Over 40 percent of the country, including more than half of people under the age of 35, think the Watergate scandal was just a symptom of political wrangling and mud-slinging -- what we might now ...
‘Saturday Night Massacre’ Though the burglary trial had ended, the fallout over the scandal was just beginning. The Senate voted to create a special investigative committee to look into Watergate.
Here are six mistakes that led to the Watergate investigation – the first dominoes to fall in the political scandal. They used the ‘F-team’ ...